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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
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weighing and sorting brass & weighing, measuring and sorting bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty7mmstw" data-source="post: 845913" data-attributes="member: 48043"><p>I never sort brass or bullets. I've done it for kicks but I find getting a barrel shooting a bullet it likes is more rewarding. Most of the time the bullet and barrel co-existing well accounts for 90% of your accuracy and your powder and primer choices will account for most of the rest as long as your brass is reasonably uniform. I've done ladder walk ups with rifles with 5 or 6 grain charge spread and all shots fell into < 1 inch at 100 yards. My pop's 7mmstw is a prime example; when we first got stw's I took his rifle out with aa8700 test loads with sierra 140's on top to see what she'd do. I only loaded one of each from 90 gr to 95 gr. and all bullets fell into .9" even though the extreme spread was nearly 300 fps with a 3500 fps top velocity.</p><p> </p><p>The biggest damage I've seen is overloading blowing groups or crappy shooting/ poor bench skills making a good load show poorly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty7mmstw, post: 845913, member: 48043"] I never sort brass or bullets. I've done it for kicks but I find getting a barrel shooting a bullet it likes is more rewarding. Most of the time the bullet and barrel co-existing well accounts for 90% of your accuracy and your powder and primer choices will account for most of the rest as long as your brass is reasonably uniform. I've done ladder walk ups with rifles with 5 or 6 grain charge spread and all shots fell into < 1 inch at 100 yards. My pop's 7mmstw is a prime example; when we first got stw's I took his rifle out with aa8700 test loads with sierra 140's on top to see what she'd do. I only loaded one of each from 90 gr to 95 gr. and all bullets fell into .9" even though the extreme spread was nearly 300 fps with a 3500 fps top velocity. The biggest damage I've seen is overloading blowing groups or crappy shooting/ poor bench skills making a good load show poorly. [/QUOTE]
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